ShawnDoc:Per the scanner link, the carjacking is related to the MIT shooting. Latest update is car may be heading towards New York.

jaytkay:earthwirm: Occam's razor seems to dictate at this point all related.

Cuz in an area with 5 million people, they've never had three crimes occur in a three day span

Considering the robbery was committed by a dark skinned white male who then took the MIT Officers revolver, and then a bit later an SUV is carjacked in the same Area, the victim describes the carjackers as two middle eastern men, one with a gun. The carjacker victim escaped at a gas station.

Robert1966:ladyfortuna: TuteTibiImperes: somedude210: huh, I never realized that MIT (as well as most colleges in MA) have their own police force with regular police training. I always thought they were state-ies

It's pretty common with most medium to larger schools. When you have 15K - 30K+ students, professors, support staff, etc, a school basically becomes its own small city.

In NY, SUNY police hold the equivalent rank & powers of state troopers (so do state park police). Don't know how it works in other states, but that discovery was a bit sobering.

/don't speed on campus

It probably makes a difference that MIT is not a state school, unlike, say, Stony Brook.

Could be that it is different for private schools. I was at BU for my masters and always saw BUPD on campus. It seemed like they were first responders and Boston PD had back-up and ultimate jurisdiction in the end, but that could have been my misconception.

/Always something going on on an urban campus the size of BU.//We not only had our own PD, we had our own post office!///I love Boston, but I'm glad I'm not in school there at the moment.

Gyrfalcon:Coco LaFemme: ShawnDoc: Per the scanner link, the carjacking is related to the MIT shooting. Latest update is car may be heading towards New York.

Shoot out the tires.

F*ck the tires. Shoot the shooter, the cop he shot is dead.

I hope they catch him alive, if for no other reason than to find out if there is a connection to the bombing from earlier. Better to close both cases if possible, and get him to flip on any accomplices if he was involved in the bombings.

Shooting at a college barely a swallow's flight away from a bombing that killed 3 and injured over 150, and just three days after said bombing. Why WOULDN'T the FBI be there?

NewportBarGuy: King Something: Students of the Massachusetts Institute of TECHNOLOGY are not necessarily tech-savvy.

To be fair, they do court the other sciences. I'm just very doubtful they are students. And, crime does happen. Could they have caught them trying to hit the campus, maybe. I'll just go with crazy guy doing crazy things. Like every other day ending in y.

Point taken, but if the crazy guy doing crazy things is an MIT student, chances are he is a bit more tech-savvy than your average AOL user.